Forgetfulone's Pages

Friday, January 04, 2008

New Friends - Sunday Scribblings

The theme for Sunday Scribblings this week is “new.” It could be new hopes, new dreams, or new year’s resolutions.

“The shortest distance between new friends is a smile.”Unknown

A few days ago, my son and his friend were riding in the back of my Forerunner on our way to spend Christmas gift cards. They were playing a game where they waved at people in other cars and tried to get the people to wave back at them. They decided that the people who waved back were nice, and the people who didn’t wave back were “sour.”

As we were walking in to Target discussing their poor results (1 in 5 waved back), I told them to smile at people because if you smile at someone, they will smile back. I believe that is true, and we had fun putting the theory to the test. I'm going to take my own suggestion and try to smile more. People can’t help but smile back, and it fits with my intention to project happiness even when I might not be feeling very happy. Maybe in the process, I will make a new friend. I am reminded of a song we used to sing at Campfire Girl camp:"Make new friends, but keep the old, one is silver and the other gold. "

23 comments:

That watermelon is amazing!I loved that campfire song!The background on my blog is from here:http://www.pyzam.com/bloggertemplates/all/newest/12/14A few things, 1, make sure your picking for blogger and not myspace, it jumps2, I lost everything but my posts! My whole side bar of friends, and all my links, pictures, everything!I guess I'm going through my comments to find people again!I even saved my original template like they said but it didn't go back up!So be warned!!!

i love that game...i play it all the time. but be careful if you smile back i am a like a puppy and i WILL strike up a conversation all the while thinking "they like me,they like me". yea i am pathetic like that! lol

you are so adorable and sweet! Love the campfire song, and I must say.. i DO smile a lot at people, It does seem contagious. Your sons car game brought back memories of doing the SAME thing when I was a kid. Same statistics too! haha :)))

Anyone who sings the best Girl Scout song ever at the end of a post is a new friend :)Great post, great point of view on life. This is my first week doing Sunday Scribblings and I hope yu will visit: http://wannabeawritersomeday.blogspot.com/2008/01/sunday-scribbles-edition-1.htmlings

I'm visiting so I can rebuild the friends list I lost! I was able to widen the comments on the templates I got and now it looks somewhat normal and I really like it! But be warned...save everything! Ok, I'm off to continue rebuilding!